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CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 112

DICKENS (CHARLES)
The Battle of Life, FIRST EDITION, Bradbury & Evans, 1846

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

The Battle of Life, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title (in fourth state) and illustrations by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and John Leech, some light finger-soiling, publisher's deep red horizontally-ribbed cloth, covers decorated in blind, upper cover gilt-stamped with two cherubs mounted on wasps above a floral spray, spine with a similar gilt design, g.e., lower cover with some minor stain marks [Smith II:8], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1846

Footnotes

First edition of the fourth of the Christmas books, presented to a Liverpudlian woman on Christmas Day 1846, six days after publication.

Provenance: "Marion Stuart Mills from Tho. Mills Liverpool 25 Dec. 1846", inscription on half-title; "From McGoff 10.4.1928", loosely inserted note from Collis.

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